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Software Security Architect, Operating Systems | Consumer Devices

OpenAI · San Francisco

CHECKED 23H AGO

Frontier labonsitesenior$268k–$342k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Define OS security architecture, trust boundaries and privilege model.
  • Integrate hardware roots of trust, secure enclaves and attestation.
  • Set guardrails for how AI agents access data and act for users.

What they offer

  • equity

Ideal candidate

Senior OS security leader who bridges hardware and software and cares deeply about user privacy and agency. You thrive shaping trust models and guiding teams through complex product tradeoffs for zero-to-one devices.

Requirements

  • Deep experience designing or securing operating systems, kernels, embedded platforms, hypervisors, or other privileged systems software
  • Complex understanding of operating system internals, including memory protection, process isolation, executable loading, device drivers, and privilege boundaries
  • Experience building security architectures that span hardware, firmware, operating systems, applications, and cloud services

Lab profile

About OpenAI

Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.

What they build

  • ChatGPT
  • OpenAI API
  • Frontier AI models

Known for

  • Frontier-scale distributed ML training
  • Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
  • Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
  • AI alignment and safety research

Key facts

  • Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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